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...never sent any troops to the Persian Gulf or made any financial contribution to the anti-Saddam alliance, its role in helping to buttress that alliance was crucial. Without Soviet assent, the U.N. Security Council could never have demanded that Iraq pull out of Kuwait, or organized the worldwide embargo against Iraq, or approved the use of force against Baghdad. Continued U.S.-Soviet cooperation is a cornerstone on which Bush hopes to build a new world order; conversely, nothing could destroy the alliance's hopes so totally as any Kremlin reversion to its old role as Iraq's ally, protector...
...cease-fire. The pullout would be completed within a fixed period, but no specific time was initially mentioned. The pullout would be supervised by countries, to be selected by the U.N. Security Council, that had taken no part in the fighting. When it was two-thirds complete, the economic embargo against Iraq would be lifted. When it was fully complete, all 12 U.N. Security Council resolutions condemning Iraq and initiating steps against it would cease to have any effect...
...sanctions, meanwhile, can and should continue. When Saddam emerges from his bunker, blinking into the sunlight, he will face the devastation he has brought down on his people as well as an embargo that could last as long as he is in power. Perhaps then, finally, there will be a genuinely Arab -- indeed, Iraqi -- solution to the real problem Saddam represents, which is aggression and its consequences for everyone involved. Checkmate: the king is dead...
...plan also stipulated that the anti-Iraq economic embargo be lifted when two-thirds of Iraq's forces were pulled out of Kuwait...
Some lessons are hard to learn. Three times in the past two decades, the U.S. has been burned by its unbridled appetite for energy and its dependence on foreign oil. First came the OPEC embargo in response to the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. Iran administered the second oil shock six years later. Both episodes produced some national hand-wringing and a spate of conservation measures that cut imports in half between 1977, their peak year, and 1985. But when world oil prices collapsed in 1986, the nation's per capita oil consumption began to climb again, the fuel efficiency...